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Waiting for PR rise? Google does a U-turn

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Many of us have been waiting for that elusive PR update which would push our PR up, but what happens Google does a U-turn and drops the page rank of most of the top sites. There has been a considerable drop for many sites and this is because they are selling paid links.

I had highlighted the fact that Google is not targeting the sploggers who steal your content but are happy to penalize us. Does this mean the end of Text Link Ads? Well only time will tell, how many will choose between Google AdSense and Text Link Ads.

Here are some of the top sites that lost their PR courtesy Daily Blog Tips.

  • Engadget (from 7 to 5)
  • AutoBlog (from 6 to 4)
  • Problogger (from 6 to 4)
  • Copyblogger (from 6 to 4)
  • Search Engine Journal (from 7 to 4)
  • Quick Online Tips (from 6 to 3)
  • Search Engine Roundtable (from 7 to 4)
  • Blog Herald (from 6 to 4)
  • Weblog Tools Collection (from 6 to 4)
  • JohnTP (from 6 to 4)
  • Coolest Gadgets (from 5 to 3)
  • Washington Post (from 7 to 5)
  • Washington Times (from 6 to 4)
  • Charlotte Observer (from 6 to 4)
  • Forbes.com (from 7 to 5)
  • SFGate.com (from 7 to 5)
  • Sun Times (from 7 to 5)
  • New Scientist (from 7 to 5)
  • Seattle Times (from 6 to 4)

    • John Chow also seems to have dropped PR from 5 to 4. Though many Google data centers show different rankings the main Google Toolbar PR has dropped to the the new ones.

    Sigh Google you and your policies need to be clarified to the world, can you come up with a explanation for this?

    Has your PR dropped to, do let me know through your comments.

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    1. Ryan Wagner on October 24th, 2007 at 9:25 am #

      We dropped from a 6 to a 4 as well. Argh!

    2. Shivaranjan on October 24th, 2007 at 10:55 am #

      I dropped from 5 to 4 to 3. :(

      • keith on October 24th, 2007 at 4:34 pm #

        Sad to here that Shiva. I too had the same 6 months back from 5 to 4 and finally to 3 but that was more because I was not blogging much for 5 months.

    3. Madhur Kapoor on October 24th, 2007 at 2:22 pm #

      Mine is still 4 . I hope it doesnt decrese . Only time will tell what will happen

      • keith on October 24th, 2007 at 4:33 pm #

        Good to know that Madhur, I too have 3 which was from earlier. Wonder if they will roll out any PR rise for sites too.

        • Madhur Kapoor on October 24th, 2007 at 11:45 pm #

          I think they are trying to penalize the sites which sell text links and after that they might do a PR update thing.

          • keith on October 25th, 2007 at 8:02 am #

            Yups I think so I have removed my TLA as I do not want to get penalized they are bread and butter for my site.

          • Raymond on October 27th, 2007 at 6:36 am #

            I have kontera ads in my blog. Does that means it’s TLA too ?

            • keith on October 27th, 2007 at 2:52 pm #

              Raymond Kontera does not mean Text Link Ads, only when you have links that are paid does it mean Text Link Ads.

          • Raymond on October 27th, 2007 at 10:19 pm #

            Hi Keith,

            Thanks for the explanation. :)

    4. Nirmal on October 24th, 2007 at 8:19 pm #

      Even I was wondering if anyone got an increase. Mine is still at 4.

    5. Ravi Singh on October 27th, 2007 at 6:27 am #

      one of my blogs got down from PR5 to PR0 and other from PR5 to PR2 and one blog reached PR0 to PR3 this time

      • keith on October 27th, 2007 at 2:53 pm #

        Sad to hear it Ravi, you can ask for a reconsideration request in Goolge Webmaster tools.

    6. Raymond on October 27th, 2007 at 6:34 am #

      Wow! my PR rises from no pagerank to PR4.

      Well this is the first PR update for my blog as it’s still a new blog.

      I’m actually targeting PR 6. :)

    7. Khayte on January 27th, 2008 at 2:34 am #

      Gawd, mine had gone to N/A too, I hate the fact that they have to reduce our PR’s just because we monetize our blogs. What’s the catch anyway? They do the same thing, too I guess on their ‘other’ websites perhaps. Damnn, it makes me go all crazy